Archive: sustainability

14 Articles

Biodiversity
Climate Change
Environmental Justice
Madhura Shembekar
Summer 2023

Extinction Rebellion: Inciting Controversy–and Conversation–Since 2018 

Extinction Rebellion, a U.K.-based, radical environmental group, uses public acts of civil disobedience to spark conversation about the climate.…

September 21, 2023

Climate Change
Madhura Shembekar
Summer 2023
Sustainability

Building a Better Future: Urbanism and Conflict in Environmentalism

Dr. Silvia Danielak, urbanist and peace scholar, and Common Home Editor Madhura Shembekar discuss the role infrastructure plays in peacekeeping and the.…

September 13, 2023

Alexandra Pyne
Climate Change
Summer 2023
Sustainability

One Industry, Many Ideologies: Exploring Sustainable Finance

2022 Stapleton Fellow at Georgetown University, Alexandra Pyne examines the role of the finance industry in addressing the climate. …

September 5, 2023

Alannah Nathan
Food & Water
Spring 2023

Reinventing the Food System Through Private Investment

Alannah Nathan examines how two alternative agricultural companies are changing the cultivation.…

June 20, 2023

Candice Powers
Food & Water
Spring 2023

Kelp is on the way: How one scientist is using seaweed and oysters to save our coastal waters and communities

Georgetown alumni Candice Powers profiles mariculture pioneer Michael Doall who is leading the charge for sustainable oyster farms that both provide sustenance and clean the.…

June 20, 2023

Alannah Nathan
Editor Letters
Marion Cassidy
Maya Snyder
Spring 2023

Editor Letter, Spring 2023

We are thrilled to present to you the fifth issue of Common Home, Georgetown’s magazine on environment and sustainability from the Earth Commons Institute (ECo). In this issue,…

May 31, 2023

Alannah Nathan
Editor Letters
Fall 2022
Marion Cassidy
Maya Snyder

Editor Letter, Fall 2022

We are thrilled to present to you the fourth issue of Common Home, Georgetown’s magazine on environment and sustainability from the Earth Commons Institute (ECo).  In this…

April 14, 2023

Arts & Culture
Climate Change
Environmental Health
Environmental Justice
Food & Water
Peter Marra
Sustainability

Common Home Photography Showcase Winners

In biodiversity conservation as in climate action, seeing the forest for the trees means acting before the forest is reduced to a single tree. That means taking real action now…

April 11, 2023

Climate & Energy
Fall 2022
Maria Petrova

Seven Reasons to Learn About Energy

A sustainable future calls for a changing energy landscape. Dr. Maria Petrova lays down seven reasons to learn about our energy system and how we can act to improve. …

October 17, 2022

Arts & Culture
Biodiversity
Environmental Justice
Series

Earth Day with Earth Commons

Voices on the Environment Series: Intergenerational Justice Voices on the Environment is a multi-year event series at the intersection of science, the humanities and the arts…

August 25, 2022